Michaelmas, Yom Kippur, plant garlic

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michaelmas daisies

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?
–Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)

 

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Yom Kippur 2020
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Planting Garlic
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